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mond, Virg-inia. and was elected to the chair of surgery in the Medical College of Virginia, a position which he continued to hold until 1878. In 1883 he founded St. Luke's Home for the Sick, with an attend- ant training school for nurses, which grow- ing far beyond its original dimensions, was removed in 1899 to a commodious building erected for the purpose, in the western part of the city of Richmond, and which con- tinues to be a very prominent institution in the medical and surgical life of that city. In 1893 D^- ^IcGuire, in conjunction with other associates, founded in Richmond the University College of Medicine which has been highly successful from its inception, and established in connection with it the Virginia Hospital. Of both college and hos- pital he became the president and in the college faculty he was also the clinical pro- fessor of surgery. He was one of the found- ers of the Medical Society of Virginia in 1870, and after serving for a number of years as the chairman of the executive committee he became in 1880 iti piesident.

Many honors in the medical and surgical world were conferred upon him during his career as physician and surgeon. In 1869 he was made president of the Richmond Academy of Medicine. In 1875 he became president of the Association of Medical Of- ficers of the Army and Navy of the Confed- erate States. He was president of the South- ern Surgical and Gynecological Association in 1889; and in 1893 he became vice-presi- dent and in 1896 president of the American Medical Association. He received the de- gree of Doctor of Laws from the Univer- sity of North Carolina in 1887, and the some degree from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1888. He published various papers on medical, surgical and cognate sul)jects in the medical journals, among them an account of the wounding and death of "Stonewall" Jackson, whom he attended Me contributed to Ashursts' "International Cyclopaedia of Surgery" (1884) ; Pepper's "System of Medicine" (1885-87) ; and to the American edition of Holmes' "Surgery."

Among Dr. McGuire's most notable achievements was his inauguration jointly with Captain John Cussons, of Glen Allen, \'irginia, of the movement in the South against the use in the schools of partisan and mendacious text books dealing with the history of the war between the states, a

movement which has finally resulted in the elimination of the many objectionable his- tories, and their substitution by books in which the southern viewpoint of the history of that tremendous time has been ade- quately presented.

Dr. McGuire was a Democrat, though neither a politician nor a partisan. His biography has been published in Appleton's "Cyclopaedia of American Biography," and a vivid account of his life and career is de- tailed in the oration delivered by Major Holmes Conrad, late solicitor-general of the United States, upon the occasion of the presentation to the commonwealth of Vir- ginia at Richmond, on January 7, 1904, by the Hunter McGuire Memorial Association, of a bronze statue of Dr. McGuire, which stands in the capitol grounds not far from the statue of "Stonewall" Jackson, which was presented to Virginia by an association of English gentlemen.

Dr. McGuire married, December 9, 1866, Mary Stuart, daughter of the late Alex- ander H. H. Stuart, of Staunton, Virginia, a distinguished statesman of his generation in Virginia, and the first secretary of the interior under the administration of Presi- dent Fillmore. Children of Dr. Hunter Holmes and Mary (Stuart) McGuire: i. Stuart, born in Staunton, in 1867, a physi- cian, resides in Richmond, Virginia, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. 2. Hugh Holmes, a physician, resides in Alex- andria, Virginia. 3. Mary Stuart, wife of Dr. William Edward McGuire, of Richmond. Virginia. 4. Frances B., wife of W. G. Davis, of Norfolk, Virginia. 5. Anne Moss, wife of William L. Clay, of Savannah, Georgia. 6. Hunter Holmes, a resident of Keyser, West Virginia. 7. Margaretta Holmes, wife of Rev. R. C. Montague, of Elkins, West Virginia. 8. Margaret Cameron, wife of Arthur Gordon, of Savannah, Georgia. All of the children with the exception of the eldest was born in Richmond, \"irginia. Dr. McGuire, the father of these children, died September 19, 1900.

Judge Charles Woolfolk Coleman was

born in Caroline county, Virginia, son of Charles Woolfolk Coleman, of Caroline county, and Mary Graham Coleman, whose maiden name was Mary Graham Gardner, of Smyth county, Virginia. Through his father, he is descended from the Colemans